“Farmed animals are neglected” by Vasco Grilo

Summary Summary . Farmed cows and pigs account for a tiny fraction of the disability of the farmed animals I analysed. The annual disability of farmed animals is much larger than that of humans, even under the arguably very optimistic assumption of all farmed animals having neutral lives. The annual funding helping farmed animals is much smaller than that helping humans.Introduction Introduction . I think one should decide on which areas and interventions to fund overwhelmingly based on (marginal) cost-effectiveness, as GiveWell does. Relatedly, I estimated corporate campaigns for chicken welfare, like the ones supported by The Humane League (THL), have a cost-effectiveness of 14.3 DALY/$, 1.44 k times that of GiveWell's top charities. However, for communication purposes, I believe it is fine to look into the benefits of fully solving a problem as well as philanthropic spending. Animal Charity Evaluators (ACE) has a great [...] ---Outline:(00:03) Summary(00:31) Introduction(01:26) Methods(05:30) Results(05:33) Disability per living time(05:40) Annual disability(05:43) World(05:49) China(05:55) Annual philanthropic spending(06:00) World(06:05) China(06:11) Discussion(07:18) AcknowledgementsThe original text contained 3 footnotes which were omitted from this narration. --- First published: June 24th, 2024 Source: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/mgJvXgjd4EMkD5Eau/farmed-animals-are-neglected --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO.